Wednesday, February 06, 2008

Chinese New Year Cookies

All those pineapple tarts, peanut cookies, cornflake cookies... wow. Those ladies were hard at work for tomorrow's big day. On top of that, AR looked at me with those eyes and said... "no cookies?"

Alright, I got the message. =)

Almond Cookies

My grandma loves this and so does AR (ironically, his name rhymes with almonds). It's an amazing recipe because I got a non-baking friend to make this. So proud of her. Apparently she said I'm not making them fast enough for her. Still contemplating setting up a small cookie business online when the demand calls for it. I'm sharing this recipe here because I think good things deserve to be shared but if anyone would like to place an order in Perth, let me know *wink*

Now this is a different twist to the usual cornflake cookies you see on the market. It's on the chewy side instead of crispy. The original recipe calls for white chocolate but I'm really not a big fan of it. I mean, white chocolate is not the real stuff! So... i used dark chocolate instead.

Having said that, I think white chocolate might give this more of an edge than dark though.

oh! I couldn't find glace cherries in time so I didn't include them in. I threw in a handful of cranberries instead.

Whisk eggs and sugar in a bowl till combined. Add in essence and oil, chocolate and dry ingredients. Fold it all in. Cover and refrigerate for 1 hr (I left if overnight though...).

Preheat oven to 180C. Prepare baking trays.

Roll spoonful of mixture into balls. Coat them with cornflakes, place them on tray and flatten slightly. Bake for about 15 minutes. Stand cookies for 5 minutes before transferring them to wire racks to cool.

Tonight is CNY EVE. To my readers, family and friends-

HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR!

May the new year bring prosperity, wealth and most importantly, GOOD HEALTH!

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